OuterSpatial: Get Outside

OuterSpatial

About this app

The guide to all your favorite outdoor activities, OuterSpatial connects you with other like-minded adventurers and the organizations that protect and manage your favorite outdoor places.

Use OuterSpatial to discover new places, navigate while on the trail, and connect with others who love to play outdoors. OuterSpatial makes getting outside easy by putting information about amazing destinations — including curated articles, events, directions, photos, maps, and brochures — right at your fingertips.

# Features
- Browsable, up-to-date library of outdoor recreation information maintained by our partner organizations.
- Beautiful maps designed specifically for outdoor usage (both day and night).
- Transit, biking, walking, and driving directions to trailheads, campgrounds, and other locations.
- Information about in-person and virtual events.
- Real-time updates about on-the-ground conditions.
- Challenges to motivate you to experience the outdoors in new and exciting ways.
- Tools to help you contribute back to your favorite organization and share your outdoor experiences with others.

# Partner Organizations
We partner with the world’s best parks and recreation organizations, including these organizations that recently joined OuterSpatial:
- California Department of Parks and Recreation (California State Parks)
- State of Hawai'i's Department of Land and Natural Resources
- Visit Utah
- City of Bloomington, Indiana
- New Orleans City Park

Interested in joining OuterSpatial? Shoot us an email at [e-mail]. We’d love to hear from you!

Ratings and reviews

UPDATE 2/27/23: Latest app update appears to have fixed endless spinning ball on startup, so revising rating. App has a lot of good content and communities, so find your favs, and use as an additional source for outdoor adventures. More offline content would be only improvement. ORIGINAL 2/15/23: Never worked, would just spin and spin. Uninstalled and reinstalled, as well as restarting phone. Nothing worked. Weird that it was on the state parks website, when it appears to be obsolete.

Nice idea. Very bad execution. Always opens at state level, tap on a search reault, and the pin shows up without zooming in. Try to manually zoom in and then the pin disappears. List of search results are long strings of text that don't wrap, so you can't actually look at results without tapping each one, and then good luck trying to get back to the list.

I'm updating my previous review, giving more stars. There was a learning curve to using this app. I finally figured out that if I want the map live as I hike the SF Crosstown Trail, the best thing for me to do is to find the trail segment, click on its title on the bottom of the screen, bookmark it, then tap the "map" tab towards the top left of the screen. To find it again later, tap "me" in the bottom right to find my saved bookmarks.

What's new

This release fixes an issue related to authentication.

If you're enjoying OuterSpatial, help grow the community by leaving a five-star review. If you run into issues or have any questions, we're standing by to help: [e-mail]. Happy exploring!